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With just having read the summary, I would be happy with the limited role that the Heritage foundation suggests.
The Europe of regions sounds also interesting.
I think we need a debate that is expected to last years to come up with a good system. There are reasons for the current structure that are still valid. We can keep going for a while, but we should keep in mind that the influence of the public was minimized.
A quick improvement could come from adopting the fediverse for the EU. It should be easy for citizens to participate in debates.
This is exactly what right-wingers in Europe (and China and Russia) are aiming at. This is backward-oriented and has nothing to do with democracy.
Why would a scaleback to national states not be democratic? They were democratic in the past.
Too susceptible to outside influence. These would be American/Russian/corporate puppet states.
America supposedly has become a Russian puppet state. Size is helpful but not essential. If people give up democratic power they will be ruled by whomever controls the European Commission. Having informed voters is much more important than size.
There are a lot of reasons, but as you refer to the Heritage Foundation as an institution to develop democracy, I'm afraid you either wouldn't understand or you are arguing in bad faith.
I didn't. I was talking about their suggestion. I hope you are not arguing in bad faith.
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Read your own comment. You literally wrote:
You're are happy with the MAGA playbook.
In short, exactly because - as you say yourself -it is a 'scaleback' and a 'limited role.'
We need to go forward as a larger EU would also be stronger as single national states.
You are apparently arguing in bad faith. Such a debate is,waste of time.
Can you distinguish between a message and a messenger? Of course they have further, dangerous plans. But the suggestion at first sounds good, which is to be expected. From the article:
The arguments:
Those are two things, power and democracy.
You are willing to get more power while not caring about democracy. If the EU moves forward as is, there will be less democracy.
It could even be false flag. What if the Heritage Foundation wants that concentration of power?
Why do we need it? The EU started as a project for a free market. Even if we need a strong military we can do that without all the other concentration of power.